Word: potter
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Republican National Chairman William E. Miller hailed his party's gains in the South as a "breakthrough." Crowed I. Lee Potter, head of the Republican National Committee's Operation Dixie: "The tide is coming in now in the South...
...East and Midwest. Instead of high pay, Stanford offered such lures as 100% loans for building handsome ranch houses on university land. To snag former Harvard Sociologist Sanford M. Dornbusch, Stanford doubled its sociology department with men of his choice. In similar deals Stanford captured American Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years at Harvard. When the faculty got so good that he had to combat counter-raiders, Sterling set up "The Fighting Fund," an emergency war chest for matching bids...
...gentle, proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...
Dunster now has a 1-1 record after defeating Quincy 8-6 in yesterday afternoon's third struggle. After successfully moving 80 yards to the goal in the game's only sustained drive, the Dunster squad got its eighth point with a quarterback's option by Jim Potter...
Died. Charles Francis Potter, 76, founder of the First Humanist Society of New York, a onetime Baptist minister who believed that the true savior was man instead of God. crusaded nationwide for birth control and euthanasia; of cancer; in Manhattan...